diff --git a/packages/devel/gettext/build b/packages/devel/gettext/build
deleted file mode 100755
index b9bd49f511..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/gettext/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-. config/options
-
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD/gettext-runtime
-./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
-            --build=$HOST_NAME \
-            --prefix=/usr \
-            --with-included-gettext \
-            --disable-static \
-            --enable-shared \
-            --disable-dependency-tracking \
-            --disable-java \
-            --disable-native-java \
-            --disable-libasprintf
-
-make
-
-$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/devel/gettext/install b/packages/devel/gettext/install
deleted file mode 100755
index 2761bef890..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/gettext/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-. config/options
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/gettext-runtime/intl/.libs/libintl.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/gettext-runtime/intl/charset.alias $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/devel/gettext/patches/10_gnulib-fix.diff b/packages/devel/gettext/patches/10_gnulib-fix.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ee9c15558..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/gettext/patches/10_gnulib-fix.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur gettext-0.17/gettext-runtime/gnulib-lib/mbchar.h gettext-0.17a/gettext-runtime/gnulib-lib/mbchar.h
---- gettext-0.17/gettext-runtime/gnulib-lib/mbchar.h	2007-10-07 22:28:16.000000000 +0200
-+++ gettext-0.17a/gettext-runtime/gnulib-lib/mbchar.h	2009-05-17 10:09:49.000000000 +0200
-@@ -147,6 +147,8 @@
- #include <stdbool.h>
- #include <string.h>
- 
-+typedef unsigned int wint_t;
-+
- /* Tru64 with Desktop Toolkit C has a bug: <stdio.h> must be included before
-    <wchar.h>.
-    BSD/OS 4.1 has a bug: <stdio.h> and <time.h> must be included before
-diff -Naur gettext-0.17/gettext-runtime/gnulib-lib/wchar.in.h gettext-0.17a/gettext-runtime/gnulib-lib/wchar.in.h
---- gettext-0.17/gettext-runtime/gnulib-lib/wchar.in.h	2007-10-04 00:23:31.000000000 +0200
-+++ gettext-0.17a/gettext-runtime/gnulib-lib/wchar.in.h	2009-05-17 10:15:26.000000000 +0200
-@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
- /* The include_next requires a split double-inclusion guard.  */
- #if @HAVE_WCHAR_H@
- # @INCLUDE_NEXT@ @NEXT_WCHAR_H@
--#endif
-+#else
- 
- #ifndef _GL_WCHAR_H
- #define _GL_WCHAR_H
-@@ -80,3 +80,4 @@
- 
- #endif /* _GL_WCHAR_H */
- #endif /* _GL_WCHAR_H */
-+#endif
diff --git a/packages/devel/gettext/url b/packages/devel/gettext/url
deleted file mode 100644
index 3477c1a658..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/gettext/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.17.tar.gz